I don't know what I was expecting when I saddled up the Olay Regenerist 14 Day Skin Intervention. Teary-eyed relatives telling me that they know I've been going into the bathroom to secretly extract blackheads from my pores? My aesthetician reminding me that I swore I'd come in monthly for facials and yet...more broken promises. The girl at Sephora talking about the time that I rattled off 18 different e-mail addresses to make sure that I got my Beauty Insider points for my ridiculously large purchase (sorry, when you have to stock up on Fekkai and Urban Decay, some bonus freebies lessen the sticker shock). Instead, I got a very demure little box filled with 14 little tubes all standing at attention. The first seven were supposed to ignite my cellular regeneration (ooooh!) while the second seven tubes were to polish away my wrinkles. Sadly, Dr. Drew was not on the box.

Each little tube contains plenty of goop for your face and neck, and I managed to squeeze out an extra dollop to apply to the back of my right hand for comparison purposes. Both phases contain ingredients that Product Fiends love: niacinamide, vitamin E, and green tea, and at the end of Day 14, I looked down at the back of both of my hands and can definitively say that Ms. Righty had traveled back in time by at least 25 months, give or take a few weeks. Great, right?

Except...well, what am I supposed to do on Day 15 when all I have left is an empty tray? For my cash, I'd rather spend it on Olay Regenerist Night. All the great juice (in the same concentrations) that turned my right hand into Cinderella and you get more than twice as much product for about $8 less. I know that we're all suckers for a pretty package, but in this case, save your pretty pennies for real beauty crack. I know, I know, there there, baby, shhhh. Sometimes the truth hurts. Probably not as much as the DTs, but still.